Word: still
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kemp tried to avoid direct criticism of his predecessor, whom he called a decent and honorable man, but nonetheless noted that HUD is still dealing with more than 1,900 recommendations from the department's inspector general for tightening lax procedures, suggestions that had sat on Pierce's desk without action...
...flood of visitors. U.S. travel to the Soviet Union with Intourist has doubled since 1984, to more than 75,000 visitors last year. The number would be higher but for the shortage of hotel space. Though the new maps are welcome, old habits die hard. Tourists renting cars still receive only partial route guides, which omit the roads to cities that are closed to visitors. "Maps are really not a requirement," observes Dutch traveler Robert Harting. "The police make sure you're on the right road...
...merged Time Warner Inc. will still have to generate the rising stock values that the two companies have promised, or the communications giant, for all its size, could face a new takeover threat. Says Alfred Rappaport, chairman of Chicago's Alcar Group, a management-consulting firm that champions shareholder value: "What Time must now do is not celebrate the decision, but convince the marketplace that the new company can still deliver." For now, however, Time must keep one eye on the marketplace and the other on a courtroom in Wilmington, where its freedom to purchase Warner will finally be decided...
...follow him precisely. If anyone deviated the least little bit from him, like the Mensheviks, for example, he turned on them, he reviled them, he used every term of imprecation against them. He hated them. Even without using the word "evil" in a broad, metaphysical sense, you can still apply this word to Lenin in its everyday meaning...
...steps to get us there." That would eliminate the let's-build-it-and-see-what-it's-good-for approach. Far from withering, other space initiatives would be lifted by the rising tide of national interest and funding. Unmanned probes to the planets would continue, and NASA would still be able to launch the Mission to Planet Earth, a series of satellites designed to study the planet's environment and give scientists the information they need to head off ecological disaster...